Risk 2 in the avalanche bulletin is a moderate risk of skier triggered avalanches. It is generally taken to be a green light for ski tourers and so it was on Monday 1st December 2025. Good weather ...

Météo-France has issued the following avalanche warning for tomorrow, Saturday 29th November 2025: ...

Both skiers were caught in the slide but one managed to free himself and alert the PGHM. The weather was described as marginal, the avalanche was at the limit of the cloud base. One of the skiers was ...

My plan was to do a small loop via the Col du Ban, then the Col de la Luère. There was a bit of smog on the west side of the Col du Ban. This was due to an inversion layer coupled with wood stoves. In ...

With the snowy start to the 2025/26 winter they fired up the ski lift last weekend to the delight of local kids and their parents looking for an activity on a snowy afternoon. The lift only covers 55 ...

Skiers and ski tourers are facing new restrictions. This time in the ski resort of les Sept Laux following a dispute with a land owner. A gate now blocks the bottom of the classic Vallons de la Pra ...

The jurisprudence is surprisingly clear. Several court cases, many involving non-professionals, show that ordinary people can be prosecuted after a group accident. The examples span alpinism, skiing, ...

The ski resort of Saint-Nicolas de Véroce is situated in the Mont-Blanc area of the Haute-Savoie department in the Northern Alps region. It is part of the Evasion Mt-Blanc ski domain. The lift served ...

A woman in her thirties lost her life in an avalanche on Wednesday morning while skiing off-piste in the Chamonix Valley. The incident occurred around 2000 meters altitude on the north face of the ...

Salomon have issued a recall for its MTN pin binding range. The recall in only for bindings manufactured from May 2022 to March 2023. The recall concerns the possibility of a breakage of the spring ...

New research published in Nature (Lee et al. 2025) suggests that the weakening of the North Atlantic conveyor will not product the bumper winters that many ski enthusiasts had expected. The research ...

It is mid February and the French winter holiday period should be in full swing but unseasonably warm weather is taking a toll on ski resorts in France’s lower and mid-mountain regions, raising ...